Authors: Levy, A. ; Scott-Clark, C. Source: (2001) Call Number: 162 Abstract: More than a million miners desperately excavate the bedrock of a remote valley hidden in the shadows of the Himalayas. They are in ...

biblio - dan - 05/02/2008 - 16:13 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Authors: Kopytoff, I. Source: The Social Life of Things: Commodities in Cultural Perspective, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (1986) Call Number: 163 (academic, go back to, economics, social life of things, t ...

biblio - dan - 05/02/2008 - 16:25 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Authors: Slee, T. Source: (2007) Call Number: 178 (academic, unread, economics) ...

biblio - dan - 18/02/2008 - 18:47 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

This is probably a foolish venture (given my math ignorance) but here's some thoughts on an economic random walk. (Any pointers to elementary fuck-ups / blindingly obvious things I'm missing appreciated.) I've come across the graphs here in each of the ...

Blog entry - dan - 02/05/2008 - 16:09 - 2 comments - 2 attachments

Over at Crooked Timber, there's a great post on the minimum wage where Kathy argues that 1) there are plenty of empirical reasons why increasing a minimum wage may not lead to higher unemployment and 2) that you'll get into trouble with the economic ...

Blog entry - dan - 12/05/2008 - 11:02 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

I caught a programme last night on the beeb about property. Nothing new there - you can be guaranteed to find a property programme of some description 50% of the time the telly goes on: if the schedulers are to be believed, we're obsessed. (Indeed, ther ...

Blog entry - dan - 14/05/2008 - 09:31 - 0 comments - 0 attachments